Development Cycle Archive

Loot kits = Great idea. I love new items, and it's nice to collect parts in this manner.

Drop rate = horrible. I know these should be fairly uncommon, but getting like 1 part every 2 days is pretty sad. Up the rate a bit please, so we might see some of these items entering the world.

Message Edited by WareBin on 07-02-2004 10:10 AM

Great idea, but the drop rate on the components is too low. I could see both an increase in the variety of loot kits, as well as an increase in the drop rate. Folks could really get into trading this stuff around. Right now, the component drop rate is really too low for anyone to actively persue completing a loot kit.

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RoyceCattemara wrote:

I've gotten two blue rug pieces (working on glass table...ugh) from meatlumps and Corsec city guards. So they're dropping. I like the rate. Makes the thing time consuming but not hard. It's more fun if you move around and don't just sit there waiting for more NPCs to spawn.

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But *everything* is time consuming but not hard. Go hunt krayts or SBDs or high level Nightsisters. The "ideal" strategy is to zerg them with enough people that they die before you do. And it still takes 5-20 minutes to kill one.

There's only one hunt or spawn which I've ever had to use a real strategy for and it's a spawn on a starter planet.

Love the kits. Good job, guys. It's a fun little diversion when I'm looking for something to do that isn't yet another geo hunt or whatever. A couple notes:

first, 1K for a turn in is fine. this is NOT an activity for people who want credits. This is intended to add some activity for people who like to collect rare items to put on display in their house without having to be some uber hunter that can go tackle the heaviest mobs in the game. In short, if the payout seems low to you, that's because YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO IT FOR CREDITS.

Second, this is... day 2? 3? of the patch, and you guys want to be done already? Come on. this isn't something you're *supposed* to finish in a day. That said, I HAVE completed the orange rug. It looks rather nice, point of fact. How are you supposed to do this when the drop rate is low? Let's revisit a key factor in this *MMO* RPG. Interdependance. Most of my guild hunts in NPC locations. Half of them are hunting for kits. I simply let them and some friends know what I was looking for and BAM. 2 days later, one rug down. If the loot rate is too low for you, GET MORE VOLUME. Personally, i won't be doing my next kit the same way. I was hoping it'd take more like a week to finish the rug.

Kudos to the Devs. I like this addition to the game. It's small, doesn't break anything, gives me one more thing to do when i'm bored with 'the usual', and what I get out of it is pretty cool. I was hoping the loot items needed wouldn't be something new and special (a use for all those broken datapads and microscopes would have been cool), but that's just a minor sort of thing. Best part is, this was added and probably didn't take more than an afternoon of one or two devs' time, so it probably didn't impact the development of the main part of the patch much at all.

This is directly related to this question but a side affect. Aparently these min-games aquire you furniture?

Would the developers please stop competing directly with architects? The profession is busted enough as it is without the devs giving out the best house decorating items as loot or other freebies.

Sure people like to trade and collect by you have said that crafters will give out the best stuff in the game. Well guess what, the best stuff from a decorating perspective are paintings, rugs and other placeables in the houses.

At most these quests should drop a schematic, one time use, or preferably something that gets permanently added to a players schematics (This is done far to seldom).

Once again content is added to the game for the combat player or adventurer but the crafter gets left out in the cold.

On top of everything once again grinding out NPC for loot that from what I read is more rare than crytals is not creative or worthy of the SOE team.

I challenge you, come out with a mini-game that is not loot 500 of X mob till loot A drops, repeat N times.

I think its a great new idea that adds some more loot to the game and adds a fun little side game for those that don't need the 1k and for those that could use it, it adds a slightly interesting way of getting it. I would love to see some more loot kits, ones with various harder or easier difficulties possibly (with less or more credits rewards ofcourse) and maybe some other interesting side games like Sabaac or Holo-chess.